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- Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FOIA
- Replies: 475
- Views: 185586
IMHO, it's the current reactor plant suppliers and fuel manufacturers that will certainly be the active and vigorous opponents. Buggy whip makers began to falter as the automobile took over. Makers of carriage bearings and similar either adapted to the new market forces, or died out. If cheap, non ...
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:01 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FOIA
- Replies: 475
- Views: 185586
Anyhow, the choice was of Ladajo and he choosed to wait, so there is really nothing more to discuss about until 2011. There is of course another option for those anxious to take action rather than simply waiting or arguing endlessly about the number of angels that can dance in a polywell. There is ...
- Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:35 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
- Replies: 96
- Views: 30803
Actually I've had several conversations with people in the power industry and they have indicated that many of their customers are asking for co-generation projects in the 100 MW range. Both military and commercial (Can we say Disneyland?) Hmm. You couldn't be thinking of the Hatch Geothermal Power...
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
- Replies: 96
- Views: 30803
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
- Replies: 96
- Views: 30803
So how much sea water could be purified daily using the full output of a 100 GW power plant? Because, iirc, the value of the fresh water is greater than the value of the electricity to purify it once electricity gets in the 6 cent/kwh range. A modern reverse osmosis desalination plant, like the one...
- Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:14 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A 100 GW D-T Plant
- Replies: 96
- Views: 30803
Re: A 100 GW D-T Plant
Looks like BS to me. They expect their system to cost well over $20 billion and produce 100 GW by using a particle accelerator to shoot ions at lithium coated deuterium fuel pellets surrounded inside a molten metal neutron absorbing chamber. Making such a system produce some fusion might very well ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: UNITEL AEROSPACE´s Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling ship
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7850
Re: UNITEL AEROSPACE´s Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling ship
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."AcesHigh wrote:What do you guys say?
-Carl Sagan
A quick flight to reload the liquid Helium tanks on NASA's WISE telescope would make me a true believer. Should be easy enough for such a ship.
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Room-temperature superconductivity?
- Replies: 1893
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Interesting angle. I have been instructed that a material like cubic zirconia is an artificial diamond and a man-made diamond is a synthetic diamond. Could it be that both of us are correct: That your use has become entrenched for sapphire and rubies, while mine for diamonds? Perhaps the terms "man...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Focus Fusion July Update and other stuff.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9667
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Focus Fusion July Update and other stuff.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9667
Don't you realize that if you've never heard of it then it was fantastically successful? Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly! Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity. Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? ...
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NewSpace 2010: Polywell and Vasimr
- Replies: 149
- Views: 53272
Launch loops were discussed in Analog Magazine (Hellooo Tom) about 20 to 40 years ago. My memory is hazy. Let me see if Google can refresh it: Dec 1983 Analog. 27 years roughly. It seems to me that loops were the most viable of anything I have looked at. I still like the elegant simplicity of a mas...
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Solar power from both light and heat
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2344
Solar power from both light and heat
Melosh calculates the PETE process can get to 50 percent efficiency or more under solar concentration, but if combined with a thermal conversion cycle, could reach 55 or even 60 percent – almost triple the efficiency of existing systems. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/new-solar-method-08...
- Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Favorable Comments made by ONR on Polywell Fusion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 38644
Enviros are insane. Not insane. Well intended... After all, nobody wants dirty air, and nobody wants oceans covered with oil slicks, and nobody wants poisonous dirt. "Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate ...
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Favorable Comments made by ONR on Polywell Fusion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 38644
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Favorable Comments made by ONR on Polywell Fusion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 38644
Lighter weight quick charge power source would be good in the automotive industry. Especially with charging stations becoming available. So the cost is the problem, coupled with the risk of the refrigeration drawing down the power while parked until ... well, until refrigeration fails for lack of p...